The Domitian II coin from Chalgrove: a Gallic emperor returns to history

• Autores: Richard Abdy
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 83, Nº 321, 2009, págs. 751-757
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A single coin discovered in a field at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, UK, has proved to have an exceptional significance in the world of Roman numismatics. It features a third-century emperor, Domitianus, unknown apart from a find of 1900 from a vineyard in Cléons previously described as "doubtful". The dies used to strike the two coins match, leaving little doubt that Domitianus was a real person, although of somewhat fleeting dominion over the Gallic Empire - for a brief period in AD 271.